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June 20th, 2011 | 
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Should those that have worked hard all their lives in buying a home and are now unable to work due to disabilities related to age, etc., whom have their home paid for, be made to continue paying taxes on their home? What if they are barely getting by on just enough food to stay alive and not receiving government assistance? Would it be right for the government to take their home and force them out on the street?
Please no bashing. Only open-minded individuals with no political bias to give an intelligent answer. It’s time to come together as people wanting what’s best for our country and it’s citizens, not political party.
Andy…This does not apply to me. It’s something I’ve considered about our elderly and the loss of their home, simply because they were forced to choose between a little food and paying taxes. Our country is being taxed to death the way it is. How do you consider that is appropriate when they’re thrown out of their home to seek help from other taxpayers? That would be like robbing Peter to pay Paul. They would not only lose their home and then be forced to draw off of taxpayers money. How does that make sense?
Majhomes…I know there are assistant programs, but my answer to that is the same as what I gave Andy. Why should they draw off of other people’s charities if they could make it by on their own if not for paying taxes on the home they already own? Those charities are from people who pay taxes too.
Cameron Penta
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It used to be the first $2M was non-taxable. Is it still?
Murray Alsop
to the National Debt?????
It doesn’t cost the American people ANY $$$ for people to inherit money or their families earned estate. It is simply a changing of hands.
So reality Liberal …. you feel the government is entitled to tax $$$ that has ALREADY been taxed?? Who cares that some kids happen to be lucky that their families worked hard and earned a lot to be passed down to them. That’s the problem with America now – everyone wants what someone else has but they don’t want to put the same effort forth to achieve it. It is NOT the governments money to spend!
Coral Shallcross
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121617415128956849.html?mod=djemEditorialPage
“Of course, the estate tax is also what has forced the sale of so many family-owned local newspapers to the “media giants” that liberals who love the estate tax now deplore. Those rare papers that are still family owned know the death tax is a threat to their longevity. Seattle Times owner Frank Blethen has made the issue a personal crusade as his paper competes with the Hearst-owned Post-Intelligencer (which unsurprisingly favors the estate tax in editorials).”
Florinda Muether
Democrats want to bring back the estate tax.
Let me ask you this…
Isn’t taxing someone 55% on the money that leave to their heirs a little like stealing the pennies off a dead man’s eyes?
I mean… you pay taxes all your life… different kinds of taxes… on everything you earn or buy…
Isn’t that enough????
55% was the old rate, before Bush made it ZERO, where it belongs.
Cantcu,
First off, where do you get off saying that someone is receiving the money so therefore they should pay taxes on it? You do realize we didn’t have an income tax AT ALL until 1913, right? That’s one of the things the Founding Fathers agreed on… no taxes on wages. They wanted a few excise taxes…and that’s all. Taxing someone’s income is taxing their living wage for their family. We have sales taxes, excise taxes, gasoline taxes, sin taxes and so on. We just need a smaller government… then we could go back to the days when we didn’t have an income tax.
Besides….
Taxes have already been paid on this money as income… when the original person earned it. Do you realize how many mom and pop stores and family farms go out of business because of the estate tax??? Businesses that have been in families for generations. We had a successful grocery store chain here in Alabama called Bruno’s. They had be
They had been in business over 50 years. They were one of the most successful families in Birmingham. Just recently they had to sell off the company. 3 of the elder members of the Bruno family died within a couple of years of one another and the family had to sell the business in order to pay the estate taxes. The people who bought Bruno’s ran the company into the ground. There are only a couple of Bruno’s grocery stores still open today… when there were dozens just a few short years ago.
I mean look at it this way… if you have to pay taxes in order to pass your successful business on to your heirs… what about when they die? They have to do it too… and so on… until after a couple or few generations… there is no business.
That’s what big government does… it destroys prosperity.
Frederick Bonifacio
Also knowen as the Paris Hilton Tax
Only two farmes have been lost to the estate tax.
Corinne Speece
last year how many tax payers actually had to pay estate tax
A) less than 1000
B) 4000 – 6000
C) 12000 – 18000
D) more than 30,000
What % of IRS revenue did this contribute
A) less than 1%
B) 1% – 2%
C) more than 2%
Do you consider your political ideology closet to
A) Hitler
B) Palin
C) Regan
D) Obamma
E) FDR
F) Marx
Are you religious 1- 10
1 I am the sword of God Pat Robertson rules the day
10 I am pretty sure my mother in law is the missing link evolution is a fact
Ian Gotts
but what happened to the Immigration Service that screwed them up so badly that they allow anyone to immmigrate without declaring allegence to America?
Margarito Blancarte
the legalization and taxing of marijuana, and with all the money we could get from the churches, this would be sure to cut the national deficit in halft at least within the next 2 years.
Anyone have any suggestions how to get this to Congress?
Cordell Tannehill
Are there ways to complain about your real estate taxes and get them decreased? How do I do this?
I’m just wondering how my taxes can go up when the value of my house keeps going down??!!
Doyle Bruegman